This article examines the tensions between 'big' engineering solutions to sustainable water management and the role of the 'small' everyday innovations by domestic consumers. Using the recent drought in the south east of England as a case study, we explore how, within the context of the...

To date, little social science understanding has been developed about what it would mean to strategically build resilience in the context of such rich interdependencies between social, technical and natural worlds. We argue that shifts in strategies to deal with urban crises marks a turn from...